Singh
was singled out by the Software Engineering/Coupling co-leads for his "critical
role and sustained effort as an integrator for the Atmosphere Group during a
difficult time culminating in the first version (v1) of the ACME model."

Demonstrating
the award's criteria for commitment, important scientific or technical advances,
or noteworthy inter/intra-disciplinary teamwork, Singh was praised for his
positive and generous contributions, stepping in for the team during crunch
times. He is one of three top contributors to the team's "github repository," a
virtual storage for parts of the model coding the team works on and shares
issues and solutions for the final product. Singh plays an essential role in
maintaining broad code coverage for atmospheric tests, which is critical to the
ACME software engineering strategy.

Singh
earned his PhD in mechanical engineering from the University of Utah. He joined
PNNL in 2010 and has worked on challenges in high performance computing and
atmospheric modeling in the Atmospheric Sciences & Global Change Division,
most recently on the ACME
project.

ACME is the only major national
modeling project designed to address the DOE's mission needs to efficiently
utilize DOE leadership computing resources now and in the future. The project
is sponsored by the DOE's Office of Science and is an unprecedented collaboration
among eight national laboratories and six research institutions to develop and
apply leading-edge climate and Earth system models to challenging and demanding
climate-change research imperatives.